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Volume 25 2004 Number 1: Table of Contents


THEORY IS THE EYE OF PRACTICE

LETTER FROM EDITORS

To Our Readers—thank you to reviewers [pdf]

ARTICLES

Mass Use of Insecticide-Treated Bednets in Malaria Endemic Poor Countries: Public Health Concerns and Remedies [pdf]
John E. Ehiri, Ebere C. Anyanwu, and Henroy Scarlett
Roll Back Malaria, the global campaign to control the deadly disease, relies heavily on insecticide-treated bednets. The authors assess the risk posed by this mass exposure to insecticides and how it might be mitigated.

Circumstances Leading to the Formulation and Implementation of a New TB Control Program in Isreal: A Case Study in Public Health and Policy [pdf]
Daniel Weiler-Ravell, Alex Leventhal, Yitzhak Berlowitz, Shmuel Rishpon, and Daniel Chemtob
In the face of rising incidence, Isreal completely revised its tuberculosis control program during the 1990s. The authors, actively engaged in promoting the new efforts, tell the story of the epidemiology, events, leaders, and politics that made the change happen. They offer lessons beyond Isreal and beyond tuberculosis.

What's in a Name? Policy Transfer in Mozambique: DOTS for Tuberculosis and Syndromic Management for Sexually Transmitted Infections [pdf]
Julie Cliff, Gill Walt, and Isabel Nhatave
In Mozambique in the 1980s, two globally promoted infectious disease policies — DOTS for tuberculosis and syndromic management for sexually transmitted infections — were imposed by global institutions and adapted locally. The resulting local experience played an important role in synthesizing global policy.

Commentary: What's in a policy context? [pdf]
Miguel A. González-Block
Perhaps the most difficult contexts or settings, when carefully studied by researchers, provide the best tests for new health policies.

Public Attitudes about Underage Drinking Policies: Results from a National Survey [pdf]
Linda Richter, Roger D. Vaughan, and Susan E. Foster
Following a US Institute of Medicine report on underage drinking, the authors' analysis of public attitudes offers new insights into successful strategies for the future.

Public Health Interactions with the Public: Can Quality Be Assured? "This Call May Be Monitored for Quality Assurance Purchases" [pdf]
Ruth Berkelman
A dismal example leads the author to conclude that if health departments do not take seriously and respond effectively to telephone calls from the public, they are not likely to garner public support for public health.

Lessons from the margins of globalization: appreciating the Cuban health paradox [pdf]
Jerry M. Spiegel and Annalee Yassi
With an exception or two, Cuba has remarkable health outcomes. Because these results have been achieved at low cost, outside economic globalization, the authors suggest that the world pay attention to how Cuba has improved health.

BOOK REVIEWS

Canicules, La Santé Publique en Question by Lucien Abenhaim [pdf]

Reviewed by Anthony Robbins

The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the 'New' Tuberculosis edited by Mathew Gandy and Alimuddin Zumla [pdf]

Reviewed by Phyllis Freeman